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    The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III
    The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III
    The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III
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    The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

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    Table of Contents: The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III
    Our Lady of Czestochowa
    Our Lady of Loreto
    Our Lady of Akita
    Our Lady of the Rosary
    Our Lady of Zapopan

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateSep 16, 2011
    ISBN9781465871060
    The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III
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    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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      The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III - Bob Lord

      The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 Bob and Penny Lord

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      Table of Contents: The Many Faces of Mary Book II Part III

      Our Lady of Czestochowa

      Our Lady of Loreto

      Our Lady of Akita

      Our Lady of the Rosary

      Our Lady of Zapopan

      Our Lady of Czestochowa

      The Virgin of Jasna Góra

      We did not think it possible for anyone to show a greater outpouring of love for Our Lady than the Mexican people, the first time we visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. There is such a love for Our Lady in that country, it defies description. We have witnessed the honor and tribute paid to the Morenita (the Dark One) by people from all walks of life. From the Pope, to the president of the country, to the poorest citizen, all pay the greatest respect possible to the Mother of God, their Mother.

      But after having gone to Poland, in particular, the Bright Hill, as Jasna Góra is called, we stutter trying to describe in the slightest, the outpouring of emotion given to their Lady, Our Lady. There’s not a time you go to Czestochowa that it is not packed with pilgrims. From the youngest to the oldest, they are in tears as they go before the image of Our Lady, this most beautiful Mother of theirs. The first time we went, children who had just received their First Holy Communion were presented to Our Lady. There had to be three hundred of them from all over the area. The girls were dressed like little brides. The boys were dressed in suits. They couldn’t wait until our host, Fr. Stefan, removed the barrier so that they could run up and present themselves to Mother Mary. They flocked around the Altar of the Chapel, where the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa waited for them.

      We weren’t sure what we wanted to tell you about first. Should we begin with stories from its magnificent tradition, which are filled with accounts of major battles won through the intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa, and of the generals who dedicated their troops and their battles to Our Lady, who wore the breastplate of Our Lady as they went into battle, and then came back after their victories to thank Our Lady, and give Her complete credit for their conquest?

      Or would you like to know about Lech Walesa, who had been the head of Solidarity, and became the first president of Poland after the fall of communism? He was originally in charge of the workers’ union. For organizing the workers against communism, he was imprisoned by the communists. When he was released, he lost his job and took on odd jobs, continuing to fight against communism. He became the leader of solidarity and was again imprisoned in 1981. In 1982, he was released and in 1983, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, which he presented to Our Lady at the Shrine. A very pious man, we had the privilege of attending a private Mass with him in the presidential palace.

      Or should we begin with the miraculous tradition by which this painting found its way from a little home in Jerusalem to Czestochowa, Poland, 1300 years later? Where do you start? I guess the beginning would be best.

      Tradition tells us that St. Luke painted the original image of Our Lady on a table top in St. Joseph’s workshop in Nazareth. We truly believe that St. Luke sat at the feet of Mary and listened to Her tell about the Miraculous Conception and Birth of Our Tradition is the handing down orally of stories, beliefs, customs, etc., from generation to generation. In Theology, Christian tradition is the unwritten teachings regarded as handed down from Jesus and the Apostles. Webster’s New World Dictionary - 1984

      Lord Jesus. St. Luke is the only one of the four Gospel writers who describes in detail the events from the Annunciation of the Angel Gabriel to Our Lady, through the Visitation, the Birth of Jesus, the Presentation in the Temple, and the Finding of Our Lord Jesus in the Temple. Where would he have gotten this information if not sitting at Her feet, listening in awe to this, the most beautiful Woman the world has ever known?

      And why not, while he was listening to Her, could he not have painted a picture of Her, or drawn a sketch which later could become a statue of Her (Our Lady of Loreto)? There are many writings which justify this theory. From the early days, writers such as Sixtus of Siena and Nicefar (a Roman writer) both wrote that St. Luke painted the image of Our Lady.

      There are literally thousands upon thousands of images of Our Lady, most of them created through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by the hands of mankind (men or women). All are limited in their ability to capture the beauty of the Mother of God, except two. One is the image which was painted by the Divine Artist, brought to earth by the Angels and deposited on the hill of Tepeyac in Mexico in 1531. This is undoubtedly the truest image of Our Lady we will ever see. The Artist was God.

      The second image was made firsthand by a person who was standing or sitting or kneeling in Her presence as he put the image on canvas, or in this case, on a table top, which, according to tradition, was made by Our Lord Jesus as a young Man. It is believed, the artist was St. Luke, the physician, the Evangelist, the artist. To our way of thinking (and now, don’t take this as church teaching, this is Bob and Penny Lord), he was inspired by the Holy Spirit. To repeat, to our way of thinking, what gives it away is Our Lady’s eyes.

      There are expressions and expressions on images of Our Lady. But none that we have seen have the pain and suffering Our Lady experienced in Her lifetime. Nor does any other image of Our Lady depict the overwhelming sadness which cries out in that painting by St. Luke. Not even the re-creation of the scene at the foot of the Cross, where Our Lady holds Her Beloved Son’s limp, bleeding Body in Her arms - the Pieta, captures the anguish of Our Lady, painted by St. Luke. Not even those images of Our Lady standing at the foot of the Cross, painted by some of the most gifted artists, who have attempted to capture those moments, have the depth of sadness in the eyes of Our Lady depicted by St. Luke.

      It had to be done while he sat in front of Her, listening as She recounted Her life story to him. There were most likely moments when Her eyes lit up, and She smiled, remembering special times in Her life with Her Son and St. Joseph. Perhaps the very occasion He made the table, upon which St. Luke was painting Her portrait, was a joyful moment. But then there were other times, when St. Luke could almost see what She could see - the Passion, Crucifixion and Death of Her Son. How sad, how overpoweringly sad it had to be, for Her to look out at the world with such agony coming from deep within Her heart, rising up into Her eyes, and then spilling out for all the world to see and know.

      As we’ve said before, there have been many portraits of Our Lady made over the centuries. She is the most popular Woman the world has ever known. And of those paintings, there are so many diverse expressions on Her face, you can’t count all of them. But there has never been a painting made of Our Lady which begins to compare with the raw, naked emotion of the painting of Our Lady in Czestochowa. And because the artist had so profoundly personal a relationship with Our Lady, we concur that it could very well have been St. Luke. Why not?

      Our Lady Travels the World

      It is easier to determine that St. Luke painted the image which is now in Czestochowa than to track the history of the image down through the ages. Everything we tell you of the early history of the movement of the image of Our Lady is from tradition. The first movement out of Jerusalem occurred

      when the Romans came and destroyed the city in 70 A.D. It was brought by zealot Christian women up to the mountains, where it

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